What is it about minorities, who continue to support candidates who fail to follow through on promises? Even an African-American in the White House hasn’t improved the lives of blacks, but polls show them solidly behind Hillary Clinton.
Polls now show that the pandering of Hispanics practiced by President Obama is continuing under Clinton despite the promises not kept by Obama.
The anger among Hispanics doesn’t match that of the anger shown against the GOP establishment. (beforeitsnews.com)
On July 8, 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama said, “for eight long years, we’ve had a president (George W. Bush) who made all kinds of promises to Latinos on the campaign trail, but failed to live up to them in the White House, and we can’t afford that anymore. We need a President who isn’t going to walk away from something so important as comprehensive immigration reform when it becomes politically unpopular.”
He concluded by announcing, “I will make it a top priority in my first year as President …” However, shortly after his inauguration, White House staffer Cecilia Munoz told the New York Times, “He intends to start the debate this year.” But the Times learned from other officials that “immigration would not take precedence over the health care and energy priorities.”
Fourteen months into his presidency, Obama said, “immigration reform will have to wait … immigration will be addressed, but not just yet.” He followed his remarks with, “Am I going to be able to snap my fingers and get this done? No.”
During Obama’s 2012 campaign, Latinos heard him pledge to push for immigration reform early in his second term, saying, “This is something I care deeply about.”
Where were the Latinos to question his lack of action when he had a Democrat House and Senate?
In recent years Obama nipped around the edges with executive orders only to have them challenged in the courts.
“Hispandering” continues with Clinton. On May 25, 2016, she pledged to not only address immigration reform, but provide a pathway to citizenship within her first 100 days in office if elected. She also plans to add to Big Government, an Office of Immigrant Affairs “to build on the work of the Obama administration’s task force …”
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has his work cut out for him to attract Latino voters. While pandering isn’t in his DNA, he needs to ditch the mass deportation bluster and develop a reasonable plan for immigration reform. It isn’t enough to say, “I love Hispanics … Hispanics love me.”
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